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(No Model.) G. ARMS.

HOSE 0R TUBING. No. 308,729. Patented Deo. 2, 1884.

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GEORGE ARMS, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.,

PATENT OFFICE.

ASSIGN OR TO THE NEV YORK BELT- ING AND PACKING COMPANY, OE SAME PLACE.

HOSE OR TUBING.

JECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,729, dated December 2, 1884.

Application filed October 13, 1884. (No model.) i

.To aZZwwm it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ARMs, of N ew York city, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Iniprovement in Rubber Hose or Tubing, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification.

The invention has reference more particularly to flexible rubber hose for use on rail road-cars as part of the air-brakes,and also in other circumstances where it is much exposed to handling, especially by greasy hands. The object is to protect the exterior rubber sheath from injury, as well as to facilitate handling.

To this end the invention consists in providing the hose or tubing made up of 'one or more thicknesses or tubular layers of brous fabric inclosed between tubes of softvulcanized rubber, constituting the impervious lining and impervious cover, with a fibrous envelope or jacket of yarn or thread, knitted or woven, or knitted and woven upon the hose or tube after it has been vulcanized.

The accompanying drawing represents in section and perspective a section or short length of the hose constructed in accordance with the invention.

A is the rubber hose or tubing, composed of several thicknesses or tubular layers of fibrous fabric inclosed between tubes of soft or vulcanized rubber. B is the protecting-envelope formed, as shown, of thread or yarn (usually of cotton or linen) knit closely about the hose.

`After the hose has been put together and vul- 5 5 of two windings of rubber-coated fabric; an

intermediate impervious rubber tube, 3; a 45 second layer, 4, of fibrous fabric, and animpervious rubber cover, 5.

The protecting-envelope B could be applied to hose not embodying that improvement.

I claim- The hose or tubing of one or more thicknesses or tubular layers of iibrous fabric, in-

'closed between tubes of'vulcanized rubber,

provided with a separable but close-fitting fibrous envelope of knit thread or yarn, or 55 its specified equivalent, substantially as described.

In testmony whereof I have signed this specification this 10th lay of October, 1884.

GEO. ARMS.

In presence of C. J. Hnnnrck, PHILIP MAURO. 

